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It looks like I'll be having some very busy months in front of me: the MVP summit is only 10 days away and after that, I'll be doing several talks, including Mix Essentials in Belgium.
Here's an overview of upcoming events that I'll be talking at:
- 24th April: Mix Essentials
Session: Working with Data and Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight 2
Learn how easy it is to utilize POX, REST, RSS, ATOM, JSON, and SOAP in your Microsoft Silverlight mashup applications. Also learn how to easily access and display data with Silverlight using LINQ and databinding.
Do note that Steve Ballmer will be at this event!
- May 14th: Visug - Microsoft Heroes Community Launch (Ordina Lummen)
Session: ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX and LINQ
In this session, you'll see all the new stuff that Microsoft added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX. From the new controls, the new IDE, the transparent integration of LINQ, AJAX powered... you'll learn everything you'll need to know to use the new features to their fullest power.
In the second part, we'll cover LINQ, the new Language Integrated Query features in C# 3.0.
- May 20th: Visug - Microsoft Heroes Community Launch (Ordina Schelle)
Session: ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX and LINQ
In this session, you'll see all the new stuff that Microsoft added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX. From the new controls, the new IDE, the transparent integration of LINQ, AJAX powered... you'll learn everything you'll need to know to use the new features to their fullest power.
In the second part, we'll cover LINQ, the new Language Integrated Query features in C# 3.0.
- May 23rd: Multi-Mania (Kortrijk)
Session: Building Rich Internet Applications With Silverlight 2
Silverlight is a cross-browser and cross-platform plug-in for delivering next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.
In this demo-packed session, you’ll see how to build Silverlight 2 applications using Visual Studio 2008, how to create a UI using XAML markup and code and how to access data from a web service. We’ll also take a look at how Silverlight and LINQ work together. Finally, we’ll be looking at “Deep Zoom”, a new technology in Silverlight that offers a better user experience when viewing large images on the web.
- May 27th: IT Club Syntra West(Kortrijk)
Session: Silverlight Deep Dive
- June 26th: CommunityDay 2008 (Keerbergen)
Session: Silverlight 2 (TBA)
All but the IT Club events are free to attend, so if you want to expand your knowledge on the above subjects, please feel free to attend my talks. Demo's and slides will be posted here after each of these events.